We went to the mountains this weekend because they are there. And as Rebecca says "We ARE Rocky Mountain High!"
We are year round pass holders to Rocky Mountain National Park. It's a lot like Disney World over there. You know for sure that it is going to be beautiful, you know for sure that you will see wildlife, and you know for sure that there will be tourists! It is the only place I have seen a grown man leap from his car directly into oncoming traffic to catch a photo of rutting elk. We were shocked a the elk culling operation that has begun and the number of fences erected in the park.
We were also a little astonished at the "inconvenient truth" of global warming (thanks Al Gore!). It is mid-March and there was very little snow to be found. In fact most of the day we did not wear coats!
Rebecca and Patrick are excited mountaineers. Patrick gestures meaningfully out the window at every stream/lake/river and yells "look Mommy- WATER! See ducks, Mommy?" Rebecca loves to climb any and every rock. She now hikes herself instead of catching a ride. Both kids could throw rocks into a mountain stream all day long. Rebecca throws a little like a girl but Patrick is unafraid to stride waist deep into an icy mountain stream to hurl a boulder twice his weight into the stream. Not to be out-done, Eric throws his weight around creekside too!
We had quite the bucolic picnic by this creek consisting of ham sandwiches, apples, cheetos and milk. Rebecca tells me that this is the very best meal I have ever cooked. Maybe I should study up on some culinary ability.
And with that, I'm ducking out...
2 comments:
Nice Spring re-do.
And I always like pix of people climbing rocks ...
Looks like Patrick is enjoying the ride.
Enjoy the mountains ... you will be flatlanders in no time.
no but i hear the cornfields are lovely in the summer ;)
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